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same day, or bis little one, whose stock took the 

 same chance through the means of a confidential 

 drover. The man who thus drops in a lot, out of 

 the regular course of his business, is rarely satis- 

 fied with the treatment he receives. There must 

 be a great deal of truth in this remark, because it 

 has been made to me from so many different quar- 

 ters, and I have suffered in this way myself. 



Let the young grazier, therefore, consider the 

 circumstance well, try the country butchers, and 

 feel his way through the difficulty, if his farm be of 

 that size, and in that situation,, which lays hira 

 open to its influence. The possession of an en- 

 gine for weighing beasts alive will be extremely 

 valuable to him ; for, by comparing the live with 

 the dead weight, when the beasts are killed in the 

 country, he will soon be convinced of the truth of 

 the many comparative accounts of live and dead 

 weight, which are published in the Annals of 

 Agriculture, and from which he will be able to 

 ascertain correctly the dead weight of any common 

 sized bullock of which he knows the live weight. 

 He may also compare the result when the live 

 weight is taken from llenton's measurement. As to 

 sheep, calves, and hogs, weighing is clone with the 

 utmost ease ; for a cage with a door at each end, 

 and a large pair of steelyards, form the whole appa- 

 ratus necessary. He should never fatten any ani- 

 mal whatever, without regular weighings, by which 

 means he knows how his stock (whatever it maybe) 

 thrive*, what chan;:^ it is requisite to make in their 



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